Making Space
We live in a post-Freudian, self-help, pop-psychology saturated era, where culture is obsessed with diagnosing and “fixing” the layers of our inner-world, to ar...
Category: Essays
Overcoming the Three P’s
There’s no point in sugarcoating it, the three p’s have been like slow-working poison in my life. They have led to all sorts of destructive thinking, choices, a...
The Imperative Nature of Cross-Pollination
Gardening and growing green things (including house plants) has never really been one of my skill sets. This fact has been a source of great frustration. One of...
Friendship: Drawing Attention to the Familiar
Friendship. For the first time in my life I’m recognizing what a loaded word it is. Like love, it’s a word that triggers a million different memories, expectati...
Question Your Rules
I am a rule-follower. I readily admit it. I love rules for so many reasons. Rules create order, define boundaries, and facilitate group cooperation towards comm...
The Lost Art of Quieting
When was the last time you experienced 15, even 10 minutes of quiet? No, I don’t mean electronic devices on vibrate and the television on mute quiet. I mean rea...